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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has opened up a lead in some national polls, but trails in much of the swing-state polling. There's no simple way to square the divergent polling trends, writes Nate Silver, because the discrepancy could speak to biases in either national or local polls, but might also speak to a built-in electoral-college advantage favoring President Barack Obama.

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Hillary Clinton has opened a narrow lead over Donald Trump in key swing states including North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada, and is outperforming usual Democratic early-voting numbers in Florida. In many key states, almost a quarter of the total electorate has already cast ballots.

Almost 6 out of 10 voters in battleground states say they disapprove of President Barack Obama's handling of the economy. Less than a quarter say their personal finances have improved in the past year, and almost a third say their finances have worsened.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is joining Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., in Colorado Springs, Colo., their latest stop on a swing-state tour during which they are warning about pending defense cuts. The road trip, which so far has covered six states, is meant "to sound the alarm about the profound negative consequences of these cuts to our national security and economy," the lawmakers said in a statement.

Many voters in swing states said the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn the health care law, a Quinnipiac poll found. In Florida and Ohio, 51% of voters supported a repeal, according to the poll; the margin was closer in Pennsylvania.

A majority of registered voters in 12 battleground states support repealing the health care law, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found. Another Gallup poll found that 72% of Americans think the individual insurance mandate is unconstitutional and 20% say the mandate is constitutional.